carbon dioxide emissions

Climate Clues In Southern Ocean: Ocean Currents Surprisingly Res...

admin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:30:09 -0600

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the current system with the largest volume transport in the world ocean. Between 40° and 60°S strong westerlies move about 140 million cubic meters of water per second around the Antarctic continent (this is about five times the transport of the Gulf Stream).

The Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat

admin — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:13:10 -0600

Eric Roston

This is an insanely smart book. The author has done his homework - there is more research in each sentence than I've ever seen in any other book that I would actually read. One Amazon.com reviewer complained that the book was not deep enough. That person...

Emissions rising faster this decade than last

admin — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500

(CSIRO Australia) The latest figures on the global carbon budget to be released in Washington and Paris indicate a four-fold increase in growth rate of human-generated carbon dioxide emissions since 2000.

CO2 emissions booming, shifting east, researchers report

admin — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Despite widespread concern about climate change, annual carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels and manufacturing cement have grown 38 percent since 1992, from 6.1 billion tons of carbon to 8.5 billion tons in 2007.

Thawing Permafrost Likely To Boost Global Warming, New Assessmen...

admin — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:00:17 -0500

A new assessment more than doubles previous estimates of the amount of carbon stored in permafrost, and indicates that carbon dioxide emissions from microbial decomposition of organic carbon in thawing permafrost could amount to roughly half those resulting from global land-use change during this century.

Hydrogen Vehicles Coming Soon? Two Million Could Be On Roads By ...

admin — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:45:02 -0500

A transition to hydrogen vehicles could greatly reduce US oil dependence and carbon dioxide emissions, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council, but making hydrogen vehicles competitive in the automotive market will not be easy. Vehicle costs are high, and the U.S. currently lacks the infrastructure to produce and widely distribute hydrogen to consumers. The maximum practicable number of hydrogen vehicles that could be on the road by 2020 is 2 million, says the report.

Electricity From The Exhaust Pipe

admin — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:15:19 -0500

Researchers are working on a thermoelectric generator that converts the heat from car exhaust fumes into electricity. The module feeds the energy into the car's electronic systems. This cuts fuel consumption and helps reduce the carbon dioxide emissions from motor vehicles.

Pricing Can Cut Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Electric Generator...

admin — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:45:07 -0500

Levying a price on carbon dioxide released by electric generators could considerably reduce greenhouse gas emissions -- even before the deployment of any environmentally friendly technology -- according to scientists.

Worst Offenders For Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Top 20 US Counties...

admin — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:00:00 -0500

The top twenty carbon dioxide-emitting counties in the United States have now been identified. The top three counties include the cities of Houston, Los Angeles and Chicago. Fittingly the county of Carbon, Pennsylvania is on the list.

'Revolutionary' Carbon Dioxide Maps Zoom In On Greenhouse Gas So...

admin — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:00:00 -0500

A new, high-resolution, interactive map of US carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels has found that the emissions aren't all where we thought. The maps and system, called Vulcan, show carbon dioxide emissions at more than 100 times more detail than was available before. Until now, data on carbon dioxide emissions were reported monthly at the level of an entire state. The Vulcan model examines carbon dioxide emissions at local levels on an hourly basis.